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A couple of small tweaks add some nice user workflow improvements to Google Docs today. First, collaboration just got more convenient with the ability to create shared folders. Next up, you now have the ability to upload multiple files at the same ti...

Google announced some nifty updates to Google Docs today, focused on students as they get back to their books and into the classroom. The document collaboration tool now supports equation notation, superscript, subscript, and language translations. F...

For much of the world, it's that special time of the year when students head back to school. The good news for students is that even though that means waking up early and doing homework, there are a number of web-based and social tools to help you ge...

In an expected and inevitable move, Microsoft has announced that the next version of Office will include Web-based versions of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote. Not to be confused with Microsoft Live Office Workspaces, which lets users of the desk...

Update: We also suggest reading our follow-up to this piece, With Chrome OS, Google Intends to Destroy the Desktop and Microsoft. - It's only been a few days, but it feels like weeks since Google announced Google Chrome OS and stirred up the blogosph...

About one year ago, Adobe created tools for building documents collaboratively online: Acrobat.com. Not to be confused with the desktop version, Acrobat.com is meant for business collaboration, similar to Google Docs. Now a full year later, Adobe is ...

Collaborating with others online has never been easier. There are a number of options for everything from sharing images and video to presentations, tasks and more. Here we'll focus on collaborating on documents in real time, an area that's improved ...

Are you using Google Desktop? If you're not, you might want to give it a second chance: this handy download combines the power of enhanced web and desktop search with the utility of Google Gadgets. Meanwhile, a new addition launched on Friday makes u...

Microsoft recently made a long-awaited announcement that they will be offering Web app versions of some of their Office suite applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote. However, it must be noted that users will still need to purchase t...

It is a minor feature update to GMail and Google search, but it could point to an upcoming feature update to Google Docs. Google Operating System noted yesterday that you can now view documents created by Microsoft Office 2007 or greater. GMail will ...

If you're a Google Docs user, you may have noticed that Google Spreadsheets' menu has been a little inconsistent with the rest of the Docs suite. Now, Google decided to reorganize the interface a bit and give it a real menu. The menu now gives you th...

WiseStamp is a FireFox extension that lets you add a personalized signature on any webmail service such as Gmail, Yahoo, AOL mail, and Hotmail. If that wasn't cool enough it also allows you to add your signature to just about any webpage (as long as ...

Another day, another set of updates for another Google product. This time, it's Google Docs that's been updated with three fancy options, all three hinting at certain advantages Google Docs can have over desktop office applications. Dictionary & Thes...

We use Google Docs for a lot of stuff internally at Mashable, so we were among the first to know that the service was rendering the error message above when trying to save any of our files. Soon after, emails started pouring in from other users exper...

Earlier this week there were a few Google Docs users that noticed added support for PDF files, and today Google has confirmed it. This has been a standing request from Google users for some time, especially as other document-sharing tools like Scribd...

Adobe is jumping head first into web-based software this evening, announcing the launch of several new services at Acrobat.com. The launch essentially moves Adobe's traditional strengths of document creation and management software (Acrobat / Adobe R...

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